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special seat is concerned, I tell all the gurus who come to me,
‘Maharaj Sahib, I request you never to give discourses.’ So
they ask me, ‘Why, what is wrong with us?’ I tell them, ‘If you
want to go to hell, then carry on. This is the greatest sign for
going to hell.’ Now tell me, how would they realize this liability?
How can a man full of mistakes find a mistake?
Questioner: One can never see his own mistakes.
Dadashri: They will not let go if they cannot see, will
they? One can see the kind of mistakes that will take him to hell.
Giving religious instructions (prarupana) in the presence of
kashay is the sign of going to hell. Therefore, one should not
give religious discourses if one has kashays within him. Now,
which kashays? It is a rule that those who have pratyakhyan
avaran kashays have a right to give discourses. It is those who
have anantanubandhi kashays; those who have not attained
samkit (the right vision) have anantanubandhi for sure. If you
ask them if they have attained samkit, they will tell you, ‘No, we
have not.’ They do not have the right belief (samkit). The one
who gives spiritual instructions in the presence of anantanubandhi
kashay is considered mithyatvi – one under illusion. What is it
called?
Questioner: Mithyatvi.
Dadashri: And mithyatvi means poisonous. Therefore,
the Lord has said that if a mithyatvi reads the speech of
Tirthankars, it becomes poison. And if there is mithyatvi speech,
mithyatvi books, or religious books, if ever an enlightened being
(samkit jiva) were to read them, it becomes nectar (amrut).
This is because, when milk is placed in a snake’s mouth, it
becomes poison.
Today, everywhere there are signs of people going to hell.
If ‘we’ say this openly, it will incite violence and anger and so
‘we’ do not say anything. What is the fun of speaking words